Ratings: Homeland Returns Down, Strain and Witches Finales Tick Up

Homeland‘s double-episode Season 4 premiere on Sunday night averaged 1.6 million total viewers and a 0.6 demo rating, per TVByTheNumbers, down from both Season 3’s premiere (1.9 mil/0.8) and finale (2.4 mil/0.9), and marking the Showtime drama’s least-watched opener since Season 1.

Season 2 gets unfairly lumped in with season 3 as both being “terrible” and people forget how great the first 5 episodes of season 2 were. So you might be correct and if the first two episodes of season 4 were really the first two episodes of season 3, the perception of Homeland might be more favorable. Personally I dont share the view that even season 3 was “terrible” but the first three episodes of season 3 are pretty boring .

I binged watched Season 1 and 2 back to back so in memory its one back thing. To me Homeland was brilliant when it was about a C.I.A. officer dealing with a bipolar disorder while being in a high pressure job. However some where around season two it turned to a clichéd plot of a woman risking it all for a love interest. I’ve yet to watch season 4, but I’m excited about it.

The series was never meant to be about Brody. He was originally supposed to die at the end of Season 1. The producers foolishly kept the storyline going for ratings. Now they’re paying the price, as the die-hard Brody fans seem to have stopped watching (and they’re fools, too).

I loved s1 and 2 of Homeland. By the time 3 came around I found myself wondering with each one of the first few episodes when would Brody come back. He should have been killed off at the end of S2 and rebooted the show in 3. Both of Sunday’s episodes are still on my DVR. I was more interested in the finale of Witches than the premiere of Homelands which is saying a lot. Hope that it makes a return for S3.

I am done with homeland. The killing of Brody and changing of power at the head of the CIA wiped the story line clean… I cannot get into a show that is now terrible after being a must see event… Homeland has jumped the shark